Reach vs Teal: an assistant for your search, or an agent that runs it
Teal and Reach get compared because both promise help with a job search, but they are different kinds of tool. Teal is a job tracker and resume builder: it organizes a search you run yourself, and it does not submit applications for you. Reach, by Vine AI, is an agent: it finds postings, writes a resume and cover letter for each one, submits the application and reads the replies. So this is an assistant for a search you run yourself versus an agent that runs the search, and plenty of people should use Teal alongside an agent. This page is written by the Reach team, so we have kept the Teal facts checkable and said plainly where Teal is the better tool. Teal details are as of October 2026, its pricing comes from third-party reports because the official page was walled when we checked, so confirm current numbers on tealhq.com.
What both tools do
Both keep a job search organized, both produce tailored resumes and cover letters, and both offer a browser extension that fills application forms. The overlap ends there.
Teal is built around a job tracker. You find a posting wherever you find it, save it with Teal's Chrome extension (listed as Teal's Job Search Tracker), and keep it in a job tracker. Alongside the tracker sits a resume builder and a set of AI writing tools; tailored resumes and cover letters are paid features. The extension autofills some fields on application forms. Teal does very little job discovery of its own and does not auto-submit applications: you find the jobs and you click submit.
Reach starts from the other end. It continuously scrapes postings from eleven applicant tracking system families (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, SmartRecruiters, Recruitee, Teamtailor, Workable, Personio, Pinpoint and Breezy), employer career pages and public job APIs such as USAJOBS and Adzuna, then scores each posting against your personas: career tracks with their own resume, criteria and scoring, up to eight per account. Deterministic gates remove what you cannot take before any AI reads a posting. Each application that survives gets its own resume and cover letter, and Reach submits it at the employer's own site or ATS, in review mode by default.
The core difference in one table
| Teal | Reach | |
|---|---|---|
| Type of tool | Job tracker, resume builder and AI writing tools | AI job-search agent that finds, writes, applies and tracks |
| Finding jobs | Minimal; you bring jobs in from any site with the extension | Continuous sweep of ATS boards, career pages and public job APIs, scored per persona |
| Submitting | You submit; the extension autofills some fields | Reach submits through a server-side browser, email, or its extension in your browser; review mode by default, auto-apply opt in |
| Documents | Resume builder; tailored resumes and cover letters on the paid plan | A resume and cover letter per application, checked against your history for invented claims, editable before it ships |
| Job sources | Saves jobs through its Chrome extension | Employer sites and ATS only; never LinkedIn Easy Apply, Indeed or Glassdoor |
| Replies | Your own inbox | A private apply address per user, so confirmations, rejections, codes and recruiter replies land inside Reach |
Where Reach wins
It finds the jobs. Teal assumes you already have a pipeline of postings to save. Reach builds that pipeline: it reads ATS boards and career pages directly, so postings show up without you searching.
It submits the application. This is the main difference. With Teal you still open each form, check what was filled, answer the rest and press submit. Reach fills the form itself, answering screening questions from your saved answers, resume and persona, filling repeating employment and education blocks row by row, and reporting only degrees you actually hold. Questions about your history it has no evidence for are left for you rather than guessed. On Workday-style portals that demand an account per employer, Reach creates the account and enters the emailed verification code. Captchas are never solved by automation; anything walled parks in a Needs attention list for you to finish.
Documents per application, grounded in your history. Every application gets its own resume and cover letter written from your real experience. A grounding check compares each claim against your source history and flags anything invented, and you can read and edit both before they go out. Your uploaded resume is never rewritten.
Gates before anything is written. Location eligibility, salary floor, seniority, work type, schedule, direct employer versus staffing agency, a company blocklist, title words to skip, non-compete employers, and government contracting and clearance filters all run first.
Its own apply inbox. Each user gets a private apply address. Confirmations, rejections, one-time codes and interview invitations arrive inside Reach, codes are entered automatically, and you can reply to recruiters from the Inbox tab. An interview invitation suggests a stage-aware prep primer.
Price. Reach Pro is $15 a month (25 percent off the $20 list price) with unlimited applications and packages. Third-party reports put Teal+ at $29 a month, and Teal+ does not apply for you.
Where Teal wins
A mature tracker. Tracking is Teal's core product, not a side feature. If what you want is a clean board of every role you are considering, in a job tracker, Teal is built for exactly that.
A large rating base. Teal's Chrome extension reportedly holds about 4.9 out of 5 from roughly 2,600 ratings on the Chrome Web Store, and Teal holds 4.2 out of 5 from 116 reviews on Trustpilot. Reach was founded in 2026, has a small user base and no independent review record yet.
Resume builder quality. If your main goal is one strong, well-formatted base resume that you control line by line, Teal's builder is a focused tool for it. Reach does have Resume Studio, which builds a resume from a short typed or spoken interview, but Reach's real strength is per-application documents, not a design-led builder.
Saving jobs from other sites. Teal saves jobs through its Chrome extension, so roles you find on LinkedIn, Indeed, niche boards or a friend's referral can all go into one place. Reach never automates LinkedIn, Indeed or Glassdoor, and its inventory is US-centric with thinner coverage elsewhere. You can paste any job URL into Reach and pin it as a match, but browsing and saving is more natural in Teal.
Pricing
Teal figures below come from third-party reports, since the official pricing page was walled when we checked; confirm on tealhq.com before buying.
| Teal | Reach | |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free plan; check current features on tealhq.com | $0 forever: unlimited matches, 3 auto-applies a day, 5 tailored packages a month, no card |
| Paid, monthly | Teal+ about $29 a month, which adds tailored resumes and cover letters | Basic $7.50 a month, 25 percent off the $10 list: 10 auto-applies a day, 60 packages a month. Pro $15 a month, 25 percent off the $20 list: unlimited applies and packages, priority queue on new postings, Resume Studio |
| Short or fixed term | Teal+ about $13 a week or $79 a quarter | Until You Land, $40 once, 20 percent off the $50 list: up to 6 months of Pro, automatic refund if you get zero apply-ready matches in the first 14 days |
| Applies for you | No, on any plan | Yes, on every plan, within your plan's daily limit and a cap you set |
Reach accepts Apple Pay and Google Pay, and pays for referrals in plan time: a friend who joins gets two free weeks of Basic, and you get a free week. Some Trustpilot reviewers of Teal mention daily marketing email with an unsubscribe that did not work and charges from subscriptions they had forgotten, so on a weekly plan, set a reminder to cancel.
What Reach gets wrong
Reach is young, with a small user base and no independent reviews, so you are trusting a newer product. Inventory is US-centric. It does not apply through LinkedIn Easy Apply, Indeed or Glassdoor, so roles that only live there need another route. Auto-apply volume is capped on purpose. Complicated portals, captchas and identity checks park in Needs attention for you to finish, which is real work if you hoped never to look. It is not a general tracker for roles you find elsewhere, interview help is written primers rather than live coaching, and there is no native mobile app, only an installable web app with push notifications.
Which one to pick
- You want to run your own search, carefully, and keep it organized: Teal. It is a tracker first and does that well.
- You do not have time to find and submit applications yourself: Reach. Teal will not submit anything for you.
- Most of your leads come from LinkedIn or referrals: Teal for those, since Reach does not automate LinkedIn.
- You suspect your applications read as generic: Reach, for a grounded resume and cover letter per job.
- You want a long public track record before paying: Teal today.
- You want both: a reasonable setup is Reach applying to employer ATS postings in the background while you use Teal's tracker for hand-picked roles from LinkedIn and your network.
Whichever you choose, the base resume matters to both: our free resume checker needs no account.